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'It's like the Channel Tunnel!'

Sean notes that he wore the wrong shoe size for thirty years.

"Speaking of shoe menders," says Joe in Loughinisland, "whenever I started secondary school, which was about forty years ago, there was a boy in my class and his shoe size was fourteen and a half."

"My goodness!" says Sean.

"He played for the local Gaelic team and he was always told to take the points to win the match!"

"And rightly so," says Sean, "with a foot like that! Do you know that my father was of average height. Five foot ten or something like that. But he had a very small foot. He wore a size six. And look at the feet I have, I mean I was wearing the wrong size for about thirty years. I was wearing a size eight and I should have been wearing size eight and a half. I have very high insteps. It's like the Channel Tunnel. I'm waiting for a train to appear someday to run up the leg of my trousers."

With music from Lulu, Engelbert Humperdinck, The Box Tops, Dean Martin, and more.

56 minutes

Last on

Tue 25 May 2021 15:04

Music Played

  • Jackie Wilson

    Higher & Higher

  • John Holt

    Help Me Make It Through The Night

  • Neil Sedaka

    Happy Birthday Sweet 16

  • Buck Owens

    I've Got A Tiger By The Tail

  • Bobby Bare

    Blowin' In The wind

  • Gene Pitney

    Nobody Needs Your Love Like I do

  • The Righteous Brothers

    Island In The Sun

  • Peters & Lee

    Mr Music Man

  • Merle Haggard

    A Place To Fall Apart

  • Stephanie de Sykes

    Born With A Smile On My face

  • Neil Diamond

    Red Red Wine

  • Dean Martin

    Shutters & Boards

  • James Last

    Orange Blossom Special

  • Carole King

    It's Too Late

Broadcast

  • Tue 25 May 2021 15:04